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...mass of reading matter on College Life in America there is little to be observed in New Haven to strengthen the validity of the usual assumptions. "Collegiatism" as popularly conceived is heartily despised. Old graduates bemoan the passing of something known as College Spirit, while the old-Ford-rah-rah-painted-slicker figure of collegiate mythology has not been replaced by that of the passionate scholar, a new figure has arisen, drawing its life from within the confines of York and College Streets, that, with allowances made for the evitable caricature resulting from generalities, may be fairly described...
...marked '94. Then he went back to his office- "probably to count the gate receipts," jibed one old footballer. Because he was a good Hoover friend and biographer and onetime Stanford cheer leader, Will Irwin was invited to the reunion. He waved his arms excitedly while the teammates rah-rahed mildly for Stanford. Then on the lawn the players crouched in their oldtime positions and, with "Bill" Harrelson calling the half-forgotten signals at quarter, went through several phantom formations. One drop-kick sailed over the hedge and Halfback Jackson Eli Reynolds, president of the First National Bank...
...Harvard", "Yale," and "Princeton" pennants, is being relegated more and more to freshmen and alumni. The undergraduate of any intelligence is growing resentful of having his afternoon's enjoyment for which he paid disrupted by the necessity of having to howl such items as "Rickety Rax," and "Ackalakaching," and "Rah rah...
...Rah de dah de dah (Rah...
...must salute independence of thought and fearless publication of convictions. How easy and safe to have written merely a dignified gloat over the victory. It is what ninety per cent of us would have done had we been the editors on that Monday after the game, and our rah-rah effusion would have wasted the time of the few hundred local subscribers who read it. Instead, the CRIMSON publishes a real editorial. It is reprinted from Hanger to El Paso, and it makes its readers sit up and think...